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despair, my friends, is not only unattractive, it's un-american. in this country more than any other, you get to choose the song of your nation and the song of your life. get your song back. put it in your heart as it is in mine, and get your mojo working again. you cannot prepare for defeat and expect to live in victory. shake it off and step up. through adversity comes great opportunity. the information age that saw this nation lead the world in a way so remarkable, was led by giants such as general electric, hewlett-packard, ibm, and microsoft, all of which originated in past times. they didn't just hunkered down. they didn't just hang on. they didn't just survive. they went out there and they conquered that storm, and that's what you have to do. anything is possible if you believe and if you have faith. they cannot uproot you. they cannot break you. they cannot topple you. believe your called. believe your chosen. believe you are equipped. believe he can. because you can. you've done it before and you will do it again. listen to this creed. do
despair, my friends, is not only unattractive, it's un-american. in this country more than any other, you get to choose the song of your nation and the song of your life. get your song back. put it in your heart as it is in mine, and get your mojo working again. you cannot prepare for defeat and expect to live in victory. shake it off and step up. through adversity comes great opportunity. the information age that saw this nation lead the world in a way so remarkable, was led by giants such as...
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the un has had a strong influence on this. >> chuck bradford. you are cannot hold enough to remember but jimmy carter gave lots of money, billions of dollars to alternate energy projects. >> i do remember. i had to waiting gas lines in the 1970s. >> to any of those plants still exist? i don't think they lasted more than a couple years. secondly are you familiar with another jimmy carter program when he gave money to build five different steel mills four of which went bankrupt almost immediately and the fifth one put out of business the plant in kansas city they blame on things? >> jimmy carter's programs didn't work -- i remember waiting in the 1970s in gas lines for one or two hours to fill up with gasoline in the washington d.c. kerri and just as these programs didn't work then and they are not working now they are unlikely to work in the future. it is just the government is not good at picking winning projects. the government wouldn't have thought of packing the i phone 5 for example. that is expensive but people wait in line because they wan
the un has had a strong influence on this. >> chuck bradford. you are cannot hold enough to remember but jimmy carter gave lots of money, billions of dollars to alternate energy projects. >> i do remember. i had to waiting gas lines in the 1970s. >> to any of those plants still exist? i don't think they lasted more than a couple years. secondly are you familiar with another jimmy carter program when he gave money to build five different steel mills four of which went bankrupt...
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i'm one of those folks who thinks nancy pelosi's un-american. [inaudible] >> yeah. [laughter] >> it is so nice to meet you. >> great meeting you. >> i link to ann's tweeting. >> this is bonnie -- >> i work for him. >> she's the one who sent you the link. >> it's all good. >> we'll see you again. keep up the good work. >> we surely will. >> hit that button right there. >> connie? >> yes, sorry. big fan. that'll work. [laughter] >> my handwriting isn't much better when i'm looking. >> thank you so much. >> hello. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> is this for you? >> this is for my son zachary. he's a hour out of pittsburgh. >> thank you. thanks for coming. hello. >> i've met you. >> i thought so. where have i met you before? >> the heritage foundation. >> oh, okay. thank you for coming again. >> [inaudible] everything you say -- >> yeah, yeah. >> [inaudible] >> guest: no, i really wanted to -- the democrats have to move on from the blacks and hispanics anyway. i want blacks back in the republican party because that's where they're supposed to be. >> my fat
i'm one of those folks who thinks nancy pelosi's un-american. [inaudible] >> yeah. [laughter] >> it is so nice to meet you. >> great meeting you. >> i link to ann's tweeting. >> this is bonnie -- >> i work for him. >> she's the one who sent you the link. >> it's all good. >> we'll see you again. keep up the good work. >> we surely will. >> hit that button right there. >> connie? >> yes, sorry. big fan. that'll work....
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you may not have had a teacher tell you they love you but you also in new york teachers valued un respected you. >> i know you all think you are pretty smart but there's no better judge of the authenticity of a human being than the kids in those schools. they smell a rat. i will tell you all of you have questions, time to start lining up. i will throw one more topic out in advance and i remind those of you with questions that we're seven days from an election if nobody's going to ask about the political vacations' of this what you're going to leave it to me to do that. i want to say something about these nonacademic programs. you mentioned nation at risk study in 1983. that is what i was in high school. they pronounced my generation the dumbest group of people the american public education system ever produced and predicted we would lead the american economy into the third world. what actually happened when we get the workforce that work force was the biggest productivity boom in american economic history. i know the liabilities of claiming credit for inventing the internet but we pretty mu
you may not have had a teacher tell you they love you but you also in new york teachers valued un respected you. >> i know you all think you are pretty smart but there's no better judge of the authenticity of a human being than the kids in those schools. they smell a rat. i will tell you all of you have questions, time to start lining up. i will throw one more topic out in advance and i remind those of you with questions that we're seven days from an election if nobody's going to ask...
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right now we have international institutions like the un and world bank that they were all designed to be weak, they were all designed to play a secondary role to nations whose sovereignty we saw as inviolable. i don't think that is sustainable because so many of the interests you or i have as individual citizens of wherever we come from are really affected by decisions that happen on a global stage. >> host: david rothkopf is our guest. numbers are on the screen if you'd like to participate in this author:2 your 2-585-3885. in east and central time zones 585-3886. if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, mr. rothkopf, former managing director of kissinger associates and current ceo of foreign policy. what is foreign policy? >> guest: divisional, washington post foreign policy magazine, the foreign policy website which is not much bigger than the magazine, three million visitors on the web site and runs a series of events and other programs on international issues. >> host: mr. rothkopf, in "power, inc." you have a chapter about a swedish boat. what is that story? >> guest:
right now we have international institutions like the un and world bank that they were all designed to be weak, they were all designed to play a secondary role to nations whose sovereignty we saw as inviolable. i don't think that is sustainable because so many of the interests you or i have as individual citizens of wherever we come from are really affected by decisions that happen on a global stage. >> host: david rothkopf is our guest. numbers are on the screen if you'd like to...
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and colin powell and cheney, come to first president bush and say this is un-american, it looks like we are slaughtering these people. and we need to call an end to the war. and bush believing that the situation is total chaos for the iraqis and that saddam hussein's forces have been totally routed calls an end to the war after 100 hours. the situation certainly was badly misread because in fact all of the american forces believed that the republican guard had all been caught and were being torn apart on this highway of death. as it turned out the vast majority of them had gotten away. i think all of the forces in the pentagon and the white house and probably the state department believed that saddam hussein had been so fatally weakened in 1991 that he could never survive. as it turned out in fact that the essential forces of the republican guard and of his command and control structure had survived and as we saw with the slaughter of the shi'ites very shortly thereafter he was able to maintain his repressive regime. the question you directly asked me, should we have gone into baghda
and colin powell and cheney, come to first president bush and say this is un-american, it looks like we are slaughtering these people. and we need to call an end to the war. and bush believing that the situation is total chaos for the iraqis and that saddam hussein's forces have been totally routed calls an end to the war after 100 hours. the situation certainly was badly misread because in fact all of the american forces believed that the republican guard had all been caught and were being...
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now, we're talking about lincoln as an extreme leader, as an un unfitterred leaders, but there's home court advantages. tell us what effect the seating had as the convention plays out. >> guest: so lincoln's team is able to receipt sprouterrers -- recruit supporters from all across illinois. they bring them in chicago on discounted tickets. lincoln was a railroad attorney so they arranged that. they print fake tickets for the convention and stack the hall to the rafters with lincoln supporters. every time lincoln's name is mentioned, supporters yell and scream support so much so that the windows of the hall shake in response. this makes the convention dense. no one can think. davis, lincoln's campaign manager goes to the seating arrangement guys saying i want the new york delegation where weed is seated to be surrounded on all sides by other strong seward states. davis knows the condition will be such a zoo they can't hear themselves think or talk to each other at any distance. if weed is like this when the negotiations have to start, he's going to be physically blocked off from getti
now, we're talking about lincoln as an extreme leader, as an un unfitterred leaders, but there's home court advantages. tell us what effect the seating had as the convention plays out. >> guest: so lincoln's team is able to receipt sprouterrers -- recruit supporters from all across illinois. they bring them in chicago on discounted tickets. lincoln was a railroad attorney so they arranged that. they print fake tickets for the convention and stack the hall to the rafters with lincoln...